Word Origin & History

beautiful 1520s, from beauty + -ful. Beautiful people "the fashionable set" first attested 1964 in (where else?) "Vogue." House Beautiful is from "Pilgrim's Progress," where it is a proper name of a place

Example Sentences for beautiful

He made a beautiful 34 convalescence and a perfect recovery.

They told her a beautiful Princess had been at the ball, with whom the Prince was delighted.

There was no object upon which his eyes could rest, which was not beautiful.

The man paused a moment as he gazed into the girl's beautiful face.

You get a beautiful view of the sunset from that window, Mrs. Blondelle.

Notwithstanding the traces of her tears, she had never looked so beautiful.

My own Violet,” he said, “you are beautiful as a vision to-night.

She might have been more than pretty but for her eyes, which were too light a shade of blue to be beautiful.

It was a picture most beautiful, and at the same time, because of the serpents, terrifying.

She has appeared in a music-hall here, and she's as beautiful as a dream.